The Linklater Teaching Practice (Voice & Theatre Arts) MFA is a groundbreaking course for actors, theatre makers, voice teachers, and others interested in a deeper study of Kristin Linklater’s voice method.
The course is designed for individuals who want to develop their practice further and gain accredited credentials for their chosen careers. It offers a unique curriculum that acknowledges the ongoing changes in traditional actor training.
Kristin Linklater in 2012, photo by Andrea Haring.
Students can expect to receive core training in Linklater Voice and three complementary disciplines: Trish Arnold’s Pure Movement, Michael Chekhov’s psycho-physical Acting techniques, and the Applied Theatre techniques of Augusto Boal; Boal’s work creates a bridge between voice and the social justice arena.
The in-depth coursework of the MFA includes observation placements with Designated Linklater Teachers, ample practice teaching opportunities in voice, and placements with Applied Theatre organisations in cities such as Madrid, New York City, London, Los Angeles and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Graduates might undertake teaching voice in the conservatoire sector, make theatre as actor-teacher-facilitators, or bring voice into Applied Theatre contexts, working with communities at the margins of power, assisting them in freeing their voices and telling their own stories.
Programme director Mary Irwin Furey, who oversaw the course at ALRA from its inception in 2020 through the closure of ALRA in April 2022, highlights the international reach of the programme:
“The Linklater Teaching Practice MFA course sits alongside the traditional, non-academic Linklater teacher training process, which Kristin Linklater began in the 1970’s.
That process ends with candidates receiving their Designation as Linklater Voice Teachers, but not a postgraduate degree.
The MFA, conceived and launched at ALRA in 2020, is the culmination of a long-held goal of Kristin Linklater’s to establish a postgraduate degree programme which would fully prepare Linklater Voice Teachers to enter the profession by offering both the MFA degree and the teaching Designation.
The Linklater Voice Method is truly global in its reach, with teachers in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the UK, and the US.
We hope the new MFA at Rose Bruford College will further bolster that global reach and encourage applications from international students.”
Linklater Teaching Practice (Voice & Theatre Arts) MFA is now open for applications for autumn 2024 entry with a deadline of 14 June.
Learn more here.